Charles Rangel… Liar!… Someone Make Him Stop!

Please!… Someone make this man quit repeating his lies about our military!

Again, today Rep. Charles Rangel repeats his lies to the gullible masses in the media.
From the New York Daily News via Real Clear Politics:

The great majority of people bearing arms for this country in Iraq are from the poorer communities in our inner cities and rural areas, places where enlistment bonuses are up to $40,000 and thousands in educational benefits are very attractive. For people who have college as an option, those incentives – at the risk to one’s life – don’t mean a thing…

Liar! Rep. Rangel has been repeating this for a week or longer. Surely he knows this is not true!

How many times will the mainstream media allow this lie to be repeated when a simple internet search will give you the truth in a matter of seconds!

Here’s the truth from Military News:

Military recruits mirror the U.S. population and are solidly middle class, Carr said. He cited a recent Heritage Foundation report that shows most recruits come from middle-class families, rather than poorer or wealthier ones. Patterns in recent years reinforce this trend, showing a slight dip in recruits from lower socioeconomic groups and a slight increase from upper-class groups, Carr said…

Inner cities are actually the most underrepresented area among new recruits, Carr said. Both suburban and rural areas are overrepresented, he said.

Betsy Newmark has more from the Heritage Foundation report:

…It is commonly claimed that the military relies on recruits from poorer neighborhoods because the wealthy will not risk death in war. This claim has been advanced without any rigorous evidence. Our review of Pen­tagon enlistee data shows that the only group that is lowering its participation in the military is the poor. The percentage of recruits from the poorest American neighborhoods (with one-fifth of the U.S. population) declined from 18 percent in 1999 to 14.6 percent in 2003, 14.1 percent in 2004, and 13.7 percent in 2005.

It’s one thing to be antiwar.

It’s another, when you lie to prove your point or change policy or public opinion.
Someone make him stop!

Previously:
Democratic Leader Rangel Calls to Reinstate the Draft!
Media Refuses to Correct Rangel’s Ruse on the Military